When you think Nintendo, what is the first character that comes to your mind fox McCloud? Link Kirby of Course not Mario comes to mind Mario is the title character for Nintendo and easily the most recognized video game character of all time. He has appeared in over 200 video games and his debut was in the Nintendo arcade game known as donkey Kong yeah Donkey Kong most gamers today know who Donkey Kong [is] he has appeared in [numerous]? platform and party games including Super Smash brothers and Mario party but his beginnings in the early 1980s in the arcades [save] nintendo as a company and Established them as the leading video game company today. It's all donkey kong this week on the game and his story During the late 70s and early 80s arcade games were a huge market space invaders even caused a coin shortage in Japan Japanese companies such as taito and Namco also made a lot of money selling arcade cabinets to Americans One of these companies was Nintendo Nintendo was founded September 23rd 1889 as a card gaming company during the age of video games however They saw a huge opportunity [their] first game to hit us [shores] was radarscope It was the second most popular game in Japan right behind Pac-man, but a huge disappointment North America out of 3,000 Radarscope machines only about a thousand sold Hiroshi Yamauchi President of Nintendo was baffled as to how to break into the us market He wanted to make something that would appeal specifically to American audiences Luckily he had just hired a young college [student] who had just received his degree in industrial design His name was shigeru Miyamoto now if you don't know who [she] [jeremy] [emoto] is you need some serious knowledge? Shigeru Miyamoto is responsible for creating Mario Zelda and many other notable Nintendo characters He's a legend in the video game industry [we] Wanna know what other character he created Donkey Kong Miyamoto was asked to design a new arcade game, and he happily agreed He began by doing something that had never been done [before] in [an] arcade game. He wrote a story It's nothing elaborate like a final fantasy game or anything But the story goes that a carpenter has been mistreating his pet gorilla to get revenge the gorilla Escapes from his master Kidnaps the Carpenter's girlfriend and begins climbing a construction site notice [who] the carpenter is that's right It's Mario although his name back. Then was a jump man So Miyamoto was inspired by Several things one of which was popeye Donkey Kong is Bluto olive Oil was pauline and popeye his jump man Both are trying to hang on to the girl and the whole love triangle is very Similar he also took some inspiration from King Kong as far as kidnapping a girl and climbing a building goes thus Donkey Kong was born well What exactly is a donkey Kong? Remember this game was being made specifically for American audiences Miyamoto chose the name Stubborn gorilla based on the way the character acted in the game Looking through a thesaurus [two] synonyms came to Miyamoto donkey first stubborn and calm for gorilla Thus Donkey Kong Yamaguchi was excited about this new title he immediately notified Minoru Arakawa head of operations for Nintendo in North America the timing could not have been better Arakawa was close to bankruptcy. [he] could hardly even pay the rent [for] the Nintendo warehouse the landlord of the warehouse Mario segale Visited, Arakawa to demand his late rent after some harsh words seagal was promised the money would come soon [seagal] was also immortalized in This moment soon after [Jumpman] was renamed to Mario so Dom pathan was finally coming to the United States But two distributors for Nintendo Ron Judy and Al stone were a little worried Radarscope was a disaster And they were risking their future on a game named donkey Kong but they soon visited their lawyer howard Lincoln to get the name trademark Howard Lincoln's response was one of awkwardness pardon me. What was that? Donkey Kong how do you spell that what happened next changed everything for Nintendo? Arakawa decided to test their new game he placed a donkey kong machine in two bars in the Seattle area Goldie's and the spot Tavern the machines easily raked in [$30] per day So the managers asked for more machines the game was a hit remember those 2000 radarscope machines that never sold Nintendo converted them into donkey Kong machines saving them both money and time Orders were soon pouring in all over the united states for the new game Nintendo went from almost bankrupt to millionaires seemingly overnight Howard Lincoln soon received a call from Nintendo he expected them to ask for help with filing bankruptcy But instead they asked Lincoln for help in protecting all of their money overall nintendo sold over 67,000 donkey Kong cabinets the rest as they say is history Donkey Kong ended up in few sequels such as donkey Jr And Donkey Kong 3 in 1994 rare took the donkey Kong name and made a platform out of it This is where we get the donkey Kong we know of today But I know what some of you [were] thinking. How did this end up like this? But on your tinfoil hats thought for a theory this is [the] donkey Kong from the first three games Donkey Kong Donkey Kong Jr.. And Donkey Kong 3 however when Donkey Kong for the game boy was released He was given a red necktie then in 1994 Donkey Kong Country for the Super Nintendo came out once again He had a red necktie However in the manual for the game it states that this donkey Kong is supposed to be the son of the original Donkey Kong who appears in this game as Cranky Kong this theory could be true in Donkey Kong 64 Cranky Kong does refer to Donkey Kong as his good-for-nothing son a Representative from rare the makers of the Donkey Kong Country Games stated that the donkey Kong we know of today is The older version of Donkey Kong Jr.. This would have to be true. If Cranky Kong is the original Donkey Kong? Interesting theory well let's wrap this up. It's time for [a] chapter review today we learned that donkey Kong was created by Shigeru Miyamoto in an effort to save Nintendo from A failing North American Market, the Game even had a backstory and was inspired by King Kong and popeye Despite some criticism the game became an instant success and saved Nintendo of America from Bankruptcy donkey Kong ended up appearing in many more games, and is now a staple character for Nintendo and supposedly this ape is now this [8] Supposedly well, that's about wraps it up. Thanks for tuning in to another great week at the game of the story I've been getting a lot [of] great feedback on these videos And I just want to say thank you [everybody] [if] you have any suggestions or topics you'd like me to cover, please email the game flop at gmail.com Also, if you liked this video, please rate it and please [subscribe] to my channel [there'll] be plenty more coming I'll see you guys next time